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Euangelium Secundum Mattheum: The Gospel of Saint Matthew in West-Saxon… (1910)

Witodlīce þā sē Hǣlend hæfde ealle þās sprǣca geendud, þā cwæð hē tō hys leorningcnihtum, [1]
2. Wite gē þæt æfter twām dagum bēoð ēastro, [2] and mannes Bearn byþ geseald þæt hē sī on rōde āhangen.
3. Đā wǣron gesamnode þā ealdras þǣra sācerda, and hlāfordas þæs folces, to ðǣra sācerda ealdres botle þe wæs genemned Kaiphas; [3]
4. and hig hæfdon mycel gemōt þæt hig woldon þone Hǣlend mid fācne besyrwan, and ofslēan. [4]
5. Hig cwǣdon witodlīce sume þæt hyt ne mihte bēon on þām frēolsdæge, þē lǣs tō mycel styrung wurde on þām folce.
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Euangelium Secundum Mattheum: The Gospel of Saint Matthew in West-Saxon… (1910)

Witodlīce mannes Sunu færþ, swā hit āwriten ys be him; wā þām menn þurh þone þe byþ mannes Sunu belǣwed! betere wǣre þām menn þæt hē nǣfre nǣre ācenned. [21]
25. Þā cwæð Iudas þe hyne belǣwde, Cwyst þū, Lārēow, hwæðer ic hyt sī? Đā cwæð sē Hǣlend, Þū hyt sǣdest. [22]
26. Witodlīce þā hig ǣtun, sē Hǣlend nam hlāf, and hyne geblētsode, and bræc, and sealde hys leorningcnihtum, and cwæð, Onfōþ, and etað; þis ys mīn līchama. [23]
27. And hē genam þone calic, þanciende, and sealde hym, þus cweþende, Drincað ealle of þisum
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Euangelium Secundum Mattheum: The Gospel of Saint Matthew in West-Saxon… (1910)

Sē Hǣlend suwode. Þā sē ealdor þǣra sācerda cwæð, Ic hālsige þē ðurh þone lyfiendan God þæt ðū secge ūs gyf þū sȳ Crīst, Godes Sunu. [57]
64. Đā cwæð sē Hǣlynd him tō, Þæt ðū sǣdest. Sōð ic ēow secge, Æfter þyson gē gesēoð mannes Bearn [58] sittende on þā swīðran healfe Godes mægenþrymmes, and cumendne on heofones wolcnum. [59]
65. Đā þǣra sācerda ealdor slāt hys āgyn rēaf, and cwæð, Þis ys bysmorsprǣc; tō hwī wilnige wē ǣnigre ōþre sage? nū gē gehȳrdon of hym gyltlīce sprǣce; [60]
66. hwæt ys ēow nū geþūht? Hig andwyrdon ealle and cwǣdon, Hē is dēaþes scyldig.
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